I prefer seeing the accept rate.

Being a good SO citizen includes contributing to those who attempt to help.

Not everyone with a low accept rate is a Bad Citizen. People who pay too much attention to it, and/or don't bother investigating to see why the poster's accept rate might be low, also fall down.

Potential answerers who use the accept rate as a reason not to assist at all are also missing the point (IMO). I think the majority of consistent answerers wouldn't use that as a sole reason to move on to the next question. It might alter the amount of effort put in to an answer–I'm not sure that's bad, to be honest.

Removing it might solve that problem, but I'd rather encourage people to become better SO citizens over the long term, balanced against the risk that someone with a low accept rate won't come back.

Edit; minor clarification from my comments:

I believe allowing users to avoid playing the "SO game" diminishes what SO is--my opinion.

I use the accept rate as a cue to look at their questions; perhaps they can be improved if they're not being answered, perhaps they're OT, who knows. I use it as a way to see if a user might be struggling to use SO in the way I believe it's meant to be used.

I prefer seeing the accept rate.

Being a good SO citizen includes contributing to those who attempt to help.

Not everyone with a low accept rate is a Bad Citizen. People who pay too much attention to it, or don't bother investigating to see why the poster's accept rate might be low, also fall down.

Potential answerers who use the accept rate as a reason not to assist at all are also missing the point. I think the majority of consistent answerers wouldn't use that as the sole reason to move on to the next question. It might alter the amount of effort put in to an answer, and I'm not sure that's bad.

Removing it might solve that problem, but I'd rather encourage people to become better SO citizens over the long term, balanced against the risk that someone with a low accept rate won't come back.

Edit; minor clarification from my comments:

I believe allowing users to avoid playing the "SO game" diminishes what SO is--my opinion.

I use the accept rate as a cue to look at their questions; perhaps they can be improved if they're not being answered, perhaps they're OT, who knows. I use it as a way to see if a user might be struggling to use SO in the way I believe it's meant to be used.

I prefer seeing the accept rate.

Being a good SO citizen includes contributing to those who attempt to help.

Not everyone with a low accept rate is a Bad Citizen. People who pay too much attention to it, and/or don't bother investigating to see why the poster's accept rate might be low, fall down.

Potential answerers who use the accept rate as a reason not to assist at all are also missing the point (IMO), but I think the majority of consistent answerers wouldn't use that as a sole reason to move on to the next question. It might alter the amount of effort put in to an answer–I'm not sure that's bad.

Removing it might solve that problem, but I'd rather encourage people to become better SO citizens over the long term, balanced against the risk that someone with a low accept rate won't come back.

I prefer seeing the accept rate.

Being a good SO citizen includes contributing to those who attempt to help.

Not everyone with a low accept rate is a Bad Citizen. People who pay too much attention to it, and/or don't bother investigating to see why the poster's accept rate might be low, also fall down.

Potential answerers who use the accept rate as a reason not to assist at all are also missing the point (IMO). I think the majority of consistent answerers wouldn't use that as a sole reason to move on to the next question. It might alter the amount of effort put in to an answer–I'm not sure that's bad, to be honest.

Removing it might solve that problem, but I'd rather encourage people to become better SO citizens over the long term, balanced against the risk that someone with a low accept rate won't come back.

Edit; minor clarification from my comments:

I believe allowing users to avoid playing the "SO game" diminishes what SO is--my opinion.

I use the accept rate as a cue to look at their questions; perhaps they can be improved if they're not being answered, perhaps they're OT, who knows. I use it as a way to see if a user might be struggling to use SO in the way I believe it's meant to be used.